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Roland TrueVIS Printer, your experiences please?
Just beware peeps the Roland TrueVIS printer is no good for printing vinyls that you intend to wrap with and we found this out at our cost Avery wont warrant any of their materials if you have printed using a Roland TrueVIS printer and i believe Metamark will follow suit.
Any body else experience difficulties?
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What’s the issue?
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Milking when the material is stretched into recesses Roland know about it, just be aware if you do a vehicle wrap it wont work!
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That printer seems to have been plagued with problems
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That’s not the first time I’ve heard this, can this be fixed or is it going to be down to the material suppliers to come up with a new material that will work.
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quote Andrew O Brien:That printer seems to have been plagued with problemsWhat other problems have you heard about.
I am particularly interested in this printer and was looking at this at the sign show recently to replace my old versacamm derived cadet
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Hi Phil
I heard there was a lot of different problems when it first was launched. I’m sure they have been resolved.
Roland engineer had just let my place. They are bringing out a new ink for it to resolve the wrap issues.
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I read the bad reviews on the Truevis printers also, got some constant bashers lurking around, But I talked to a guy who is running one 24 hrs a day, 3 shifts and LOVES his! I guess the early models had trouble but from what I have noticed, they have them ironed out.
I am going on 6 months with mine and this thing is like a tank! I am yet to print a bad print, (unless it was one I guessed wrong on a color) It has an awesome take up, the ink is bullet proof, you have to work to scratch the prints, as far as I am concerned it sips ink, is much easier to clean than the VP was and easily prints in half the time, the solid colors look no different than cut vinyl and the cutter in this thing is dead accurate, one thing I found is when you cut a laminated print with the crop marks, it is best to remove the media roll and slide the holders out of the way, I was off on a cut one time and caught the print bumping the hardware back there and now that I remove the media, I have not had another problem.
I have to admit, I was really worried about this printer, I read so much bad press on this I was wondering if Roland was slipping in the printer dept. but from what I have experienced so far I gotta say I am more than impressed with the TrueVis VG540! It just cranks out any job I throw at it and never bats an eye, the machine I am using is exactly what I was used to in my VP, only so much more, I love having banners that won’t mark up just by flipping them over on the table, and this thing reads crop marks like a champ. I can only report what I am seeing here, I really look forward to printing any job, and I just printed a banner right before leaving for lunch, just loaded it on the take up and left, there it is, all ready to hem, I used to have to wait a whole day before I could even think about hemming a banner printed with my VP, not now, they have gone out the door same day, many times already.
Feel free to ask any questions you like, from my stand point I don’t think you should be afraid of this printer at all.
However, I don’t do wraps, in my area people won’t pay for a wrap, I did a few box truck wraps but they are flat, so if in fact they don’t work well for wraps and you do them I guess a Truevis wouldn’t be a good choice, I just printed 50 posters and 4 banners today, I feel this machine is stellar, colors are so bright, my customer was running around his store showing everyone his new banners. I have some 3m wrap material and will print some and stretch/install some on my shop truck and report back.
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quote Andrew O Brien:Hi Phil
I heard there was a lot of different problems when it first was launched. I’m sure they have been resolved.
Roland engineer had just let my place. They are bringing out a new ink for it to resolve the wrap issues.
That would be good [emoji106][emoji106]
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Bill’s experience reflects my own with an SG540, very easy to look after and the inks last ages, I’m not a heavy user (it prints every week and more often every day) but I bought mine in August last year and I’ve only just changed the Black and Cyan cartridges, the yellow and magenta were changed a few months ago.
It is way faster than my old SP540, a print that would take all day on the SP can be done in less than an hour on the SG, I’ve now got into the habit of queuing prints and just printing for a few hours in the afternoon.
Inks are more durable than the Max inks and if it’s going on a vehicle then the prints are laminated anyway, and as Bill said solid colours can be mistaken for coloured vinyl.
Maintenance is just basically making sure the heads and capping stations don’t have a build up of ink, the rest it does itself.
Once it’s a few years old and things start to wear or go wrong I might change my opinion but for now it’s a great printerSteve
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Quick update about the wrap vinyl washing out while stretching, I printed some oracal wrap material and stretched it over a wooden bar stool, and I did not see ANY wash out of the print, I stretched it unfairly and quite harshly and the colors kept their clarity.
I suspect honestly this was more "fake news" about the Truevis printers, there is a ton of it going around, I really enjoy mine, it is quite the shop partner.
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